Authenticity and experience in sustainable food tourism

The aim of this paper is to analyze the prac tices of sustain able food tourism in Italy. In recent years, food sustain ab il ity has found in tourism prac tice an import ant channel for promot ing and devel op ing itself (Everett and Aitchison, 2008; Sims, 2009). Also, in the past, food tourism was an estab lished prac tice in Italy, but only in recent years have rela tions with sustain ab il ity been defined more clearly. This alli ance between food and sustain ab il ity prin ciples has given a differ ent direc tion to food tourism.